PrettyPrinter

Documentation

Syntax-highlighting, declarative and composable pretty printer for Python 3.5+

pip install prettyprinter

• Drop in replacement for the standard library pprint: just rename pprint to prettyprinter in your imports.
• Uses a modified Wadler-Leijen layout algorithm for optimal formatting
• Write pretty printers for your own types with a dead simple, declarative interface

Pretty print common Python values:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from prettyprinter import pprint
>>> pprint({'beautiful output': datetime.now()})
{
    'beautiful output': datetime.datetime(
        year=2017,
        month=12,
        day=12,
        hour=0,
        minute=43,
        second=4,
        microsecond=752094
    )
}

As well as your own, without any manual string formatting:

>>> class MyClass:
...     def __init__(self, one, two):
...         self.one = one
...         self.two = two

>>> from prettyprinter import register_pretty, pretty_call

>>> @register_pretty(MyClass)
... def pretty_myclass(value, ctx):
...     return pretty_call(ctx, MyClass, one=value.one, two=value.two)

>>> pprint(MyClass((1, 2, 3), {'a': 1, 'b': 2}))
MyClass(one=(1, 2, 3), two={'a': 1, 'b': 2})

>>> pprint({'beautiful output': datetime.now(), 'beautiful MyClass instance': MyClass((1, 2, 3), {'a': 1, 'b': 2})})
{
    'beautiful MyClass instance': MyClass(
        one=(1, 2, 3),
        two={'a': 1, 'b': 2}
    ),
    'beautiful output': datetime.datetime(
        year=2017,
        month=12,
        day=12,
        hour=0,
        minute=44,
        second=18,
        microsecond=384219
    )
}

Comes packaged with the following pretty printer definitions, which you can enable by calling prettyprinter.install_extras():

• datetime - (installed by default)
• enum - (installed by default)
• pytz - (installed by default)
• dataclasses - any new class you create will be pretty printed automatically
• attrs - pretty prints any new class you create with attrs
• django - pretty prints your Models and QuerySets
• numpy - pretty prints numpy scalars with explicit types
• requests - pretty prints Requests, Responses, Sessions, and more from the requests library

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: Documentation.